Boulder updates.-

[SainterK]

Absolutely credit where credit is due Saints. It will take a while to determine if this training trip has been worth it from a playing/fitness/club morale perspective, fingers crossed it is, but right now from a media perspective I'm absolutely ecstatic at what the club has been dishing out. Well done St Kilda.

It is "pleasing"..........It would be sweeter if we can sign a few hundred international members ....I wonder if there a membership team in action....

we should all be emailing the Saints and congratulating them on the media!!! Luke has been a great addition

Agree! +1

[Sick Nal Danto]

Luke is currently the best pick up of the off season !!

[SaintPav]

bobmurrey said " Not sure how any of this NFL shite is going to help the team when they run out for round 1 next year..."

I don't know mmyself exactly but i did notice the coach of north defending their decision to take their team over to Utah i think it is for the 3rd. year in a row. He maintains the gains are definately more than just bonding and if it wasn't so they'de be just going to Torquey instead.
Like yourself i hope the Saints register a big gain - i'll be reserving my own view to later next year.

G OP S A I N T S !

So you will equate how well we go next season with the Colarado trip?

The benefits will accrue over a period of 3 or 4 years and not just one trip.

[saintspremiers]

I'm surprised no one commented on their visit to The Bubble.

Lets hope that's as close as they ever come to that stupid Lyon Bubble!

[shmic_s]

I'm surprised no one commented on their visit to The Bubble.

Lets hope that's as close as they ever come to that stupid Lyon Bubble!

It's taking closed training a bit far.

[joffaboy]

Not sure how any of this NFL shite is going to help the team when they run out for round 1 next year...

It must be all about bonding and team spirit, i doubt any of the stuff they are writing about re their overseas adventure will improve them skill wise....

When you're on a junket you have to enjoy it, and it sounds like they are...good on em....

Luckily they will get back early enough to do a more relevant , more beneficial to AFL footy, pre season.....

Clearly it's a junket. No doubt there and that fact isn't been hidden, so no probs there.

If they wanted high altitude training, thy could've jut taken a 3 hour bus ride to Mt Buller and ran up and down a few runs!

Cleary you both know s.hite from clay.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/n ... 2ar4n.html

[bobmurray]

Not sure how any of this NFL shite is going to help the team when they run out for round 1 next year...

It must be all about bonding and team spirit, i doubt any of the stuff they are writing about re their overseas adventure will improve them skill wise....

When you're on a junket you have to enjoy it, and it sounds like they are...good on em....

Luckily they will get back early enough to do a more relevant , more beneficial to AFL footy, pre season.....

Clearly it's a junket. No doubt there and that fact isn't been hidden, so no probs there.

If they wanted high altitude training, thy could've jut taken a 3 hour bus ride to Mt Buller and ran up and down a few runs!

Cleary you both know s.hite from clay.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/n ... 2ar4n.html

I do know there is a lot of shite in that referred article...but i'm not surprised you got taken in hook, line and sinker ....

[joffaboy]

I do know there is a lot of shite in that referred article...but i'm not surprised you got taken in hook, line and sinker ....

You know more than the experts bob?

lol - you chump.

Shown up again form the fool you are. Isn't hard. Confirms everything I have heard about you

[stevie]

Cool, a dude posted this on my thread on the Niners forum. Ok, it's the one of our Sts site buts its sweet

http://www.nfl.com/videos/denver-bronco ... ts-Broncos

[ozrulestrace]

Absolutely credit where credit is due Saints. It will take a while to determine if this training trip has been worth it from a playing/fitness/club morale perspective, fingers crossed it is, but right now from a media perspective I'm absolutely ecstatic at what the club has been dishing out. Well done St Kilda.

It is "pleasing"..........It would be sweeter if we can sign a few hundred international members ....I wonder if there a membership team in action....

They are calling everyone in America right now.

Hopefully they're using the phone lists used by Team Obama seeing the Romney phone lists would have been shredded as useless.

[saintspremiers]

Not sure how any of this NFL shite is going to help the team when they run out for round 1 next year...

It must be all about bonding and team spirit, i doubt any of the stuff they are writing about re their overseas adventure will improve them skill wise....

When you're on a junket you have to enjoy it, and it sounds like they are...good on em....

Luckily they will get back early enough to do a more relevant , more beneficial to AFL footy, pre season.....

Clearly it's a junket. No doubt there and that fact isn't been hidden, so no probs there.

If they wanted high altitude training, thy could've jut taken a 3 hour bus ride to Mt Buller and ran up and down a few runs!

Cleary you both know s.hite from clay.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/n ... 2ar4n.html

Boulder is at 1600 meters not 2100 meters so I'm not sure if the benefits will be as great as Collingwoods.

[saintbrat]

the team used the "Bubble" today




then some hit the basketball.

Tom Curren‏@tcurren43

Unbelievable experience at the #DenverVRaptors game. Definitely doing it again ! #NBA pic.twitter.com/K2L4E9eM

[HitTheBoundary]

Boulder is at 1600 meters not 2100 meters so I'm not sure if the benefits will be as great as Collingwoods.

Some of the local walks go higher, up to 12,000 feet (about 3500 meters).
http://www.visitingboulder.com/hiking-in-boulder.php

[Dr Spaceman]

People need to stop being cynical about this trip. Although the benefits remain to be seen, I can't see any downside at all.

And let's face it, if one of the power clubs was swanning around Colorado, mixing with the Denver Broncos and sending it all back to their supporters, we'd all be as jealous as hell.

Well done Saints

[bobmurray]

I do know there is a lot of shite in that referred article...but i'm not surprised you got taken in hook, line and sinker ....

You know more than the experts bob?

lol - you chump.

Shown up again form the fool you are. Isn't hard. Confirms everything I have heard about you

You're a crack up....the biggest non contributor on here......what a turnip

[joffaboy]

You're a crack up....the biggest non contributor on here......what a turnip

oh the dripping irony.

You think you know more than scientists. What an ignoramous you are. But then again anyone reading your jokes of posts would already know that.

Only person more negative than you is Tony Abbott. You know Jack Schitt about the benefits or not about this trip, but then go on to make a toss pot of yourself when shown up.

Typical of someone who cant book a ticket to a match over the internet. You complete dick.head

[Con Gorozidis]

People need to stop being cynical about this trip. Although the benefits remain to be seen, I can't see any downside at all.

And let's face it, if one of the power clubs was swanning around Colorado, mixing with the Denver Broncos and sending it all back to their supporters, we'd all be as jealous as hell.

Well done Saints

Im all for this trip.

The other good news is that weed is now legal in Colorado - so no problems if some of the boys have a few quiet scooby doos to chill out after training.

[plugger66]

People need to stop being cynical about this trip. Although the benefits remain to be seen, I can't see any downside at all.

And let's face it, if one of the power clubs was swanning around Colorado, mixing with the Denver Broncos and sending it all back to their supporters, we'd all be as jealous as hell.

Well done Saints

Im all for this trip.

The other good news is that weed is now legal in Colarado - so no problems if some of the boys have a few quiet scooby doos to chill out after training.

The problem is it isnt legal in the AFL.

[joffaboy]

People need to stop being cynical about this trip. Although the benefits remain to be seen, I can't see any downside at all.

And let's face it, if one of the power clubs was swanning around Colorado, mixing with the Denver Broncos and sending it all back to their supporters, we'd all be as jealous as hell.

Well done Saints

Im all for this trip.

The other good news is that weed is now legal in Colarado - so no problems if some of the boys have a few quiet scooby doos to chill out after training.

What about Ice Ice baby?

[bobmurray]

You're a crack up....the biggest non contributor on here......what a turnip

oh the dripping irony.

You think you know more than scientists. What an ignoramous you are. But then again anyone reading your jokes of posts would already know that.

Only person more negative than you is Tony Abbott. You know Jack Schitt about the benefits or not about this trip, but then go on to make a toss pot of yourself when shown up.

Typical of someone who cant book a ticket to a match over the internet. You complete dick.head

[Freebird]

Bob, if you suffer fools we all suffer

[Dave McNamara]

...It found that the players who went on the camp outperformed the control group in terms of their improved running by 2.1 per cent...

McLean said the research showed that altitude training camps boosted the training capacity of players and helped them to train harder when they returned to sea level.

The paper said improvement was ''maintained for at least four weeks post-descent and may therefore lead to improved quality of training throughout this period''.

It acknowledged, though, the impact of simply going on a training camp - regardless of altitude - and of the placebo effect could not be eliminated as a contributing factor.

Despite (or is that including ) the usual bit of argy bargee on here, the question of the benefits from our little jaunt is a very interesting topic for discussion I reckon.

From the perspective of team bonding, exposure to how big-time sports operate, escaping the likes of Caro and Kimmy D, and just as a shear life experience for the players (especially for the younger blokes), and as a PR and also a networking opportunity for the club... undoubtedly a big positive for mine.

From the perspective of the actual physiological benefits... hmmmmm...? I would have expected/hoped for more than just 2.1% overall improvement, and for that benefit to last more than four weeks...?

Is 2.1% even statistically significant??? I suspect not given that..., "the placebo effect could not be eliminated as a contributing factor."

Possibly repeated altitude training camps are needed to build on this...? I think that's the attitude to altitude (hah, hah!) of Nuff Nuff, and also the Skunks(?) If so, how high do we need to jump to have jumped high enough? Could we not now train somewhere closer to home (ie; cheaper), and apply what we've learnt over on Rocky Mountain High???

As the idea of altitude training is to make use of the lower atmospheric oxygen levels, can that not be recreated in a special room for stationery bike riding and treadmill running... ala like we did recently for Roo? Maybe it's a combination of all of the above...?

My definitive answer is the one that's be pointed out to me by fellow posters on here a few times before... I don't know.

My second definitive answer is decidedly strident... I do know...

I hope that the club is reseaching all of this (and possibly more), so that the club can come up with the best possible approach/es to gaining a maximal benefit from altitude training... and I'd be confident that that's just what they are working on.

If we work all this out properly/successfully... well there's a significant advantage we can gain over those seventeen other scummy clubs.

[saintbrat]

More starting to find the twitter thumbs now but first one up to tweeting after todays 5hour hike was Hutchy

[magnifisaint]

More starting to find the twitter thumbs now but first one up to tweeting after todays 5hour hike was Hutchy

Who's Hutchy

[magnifisaint]

People need to stop being cynical about this trip. Although the benefits remain to be seen, I can't see any downside at all.

And let's face it, if one of the power clubs was swanning around Colorado, mixing with the Denver Broncos and sending it all back to their supporters, we'd all be as jealous as hell.

Well done Saints

Cost is the downside